Adam Le
Adam Le is Senior Editor, EMEA, for PEI Group's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor. Based in London, Adam works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI's offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Prior to PEI, his roles included reporting on finance and technology for Bloomberg Japan.
Presenting: the buyer-led secondaries deal.
The hire is understood to bring the total number of professionals within the investment bank’s directs and secondaries team to 35.
Paul Sanabria and Jeff Hammer will return to their advisory roots as part of the investment bank's 'aggressive' push.
The sale follows the close of Ardian’s latest secondaries flagship programme on a record-breaking $30bn.
The mid-market firm associated with global advisory group Alvarez & Marsal is the latest to join an increasingly competitive buyside landscape.
The hire comes a month after NYCRS closed a more than $5.5bn sale to Blackstone Strategic Partners.
The firm is investing its $2.5bn Ashbridge Transformational Secondaries Fund II, which closed in 2023.
New Mountain Capital has been been communicating with LPs about the formalisation of its CV strategy in recent months.
The firm's Partnership Solutions business will back single- and concentrated multi-asset CVs and will also be co-led by a two-decade veteran of the private equity giant.
In this 8-minute video, Yann Robard, founder and managing partner at the liquidity specialist, comments on the importance of relationships in private markets and the evolution of the private markets ecosystem.